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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dalamar" data-source="post: 567829" data-attributes="member: 358">This was back when the 3E PsiHB had just come out, my first psion (savant). 2nd level.The party, consisting of a dwarven fighter, elven (IIRC) fighter/rogue, halfling rogue and a human psion (me), had been almost completely depleted of HP (except for me as I had stayed in the background). We are about to set camp when an ogre attacks us.Due to unskillful playing, the halfling goes down first, at -2 I think. She is quickly followed by the elf a round or two later, reaching two negatives further than the unstabilized halfling. A round or two further, the dwarf goes down too. All the time, I had been firing finger of fires at it, missing badly. The rest of the party looks at me and are already starting to think their next characters. "You need to kill the ogre and stabilize three characters, first of which will die in two rounds. Not a chance."Well, thinking I have nothing to lose, I decide to throw my short spear at it with my amazing total of +2. I hit just barely. Rolling damage... it goes to -1! I use my move-action to move next to the elf.Come next round, I used an untrained heal check with my +1 Wis modifier and made the check by 1, leaving the elf at -9. Next round I move over the halfling to use heal on her on the next round. And I make it again, barely, she's at -9 too.I start treating the dwarf as soon as I can, but keep missing the rolls. Two rounds, two failures and the dwarf is up for his last stabilization roll or die. And a success. We were darn surprised of our survival. And of course I boasted (OoC) for quite a while about me saving us. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> -------Same party, 2 levels later. We are fighting hobgoblins in some underground complex. We manage quite well, except the the dwarf gets pushed over the ledge of a 60ft fall to 10ft of water total of 70ft). We quickly dispose of the remaining hobos and pull out the rope that the elf has... only 50ft.The dwarf had sunken to the bottom, caused by him carrying almost half his weight in equipment. But thanks to his constitution, he's able to hold his breath for a while.We have an idea and look up our character sheets: the elf's and my height adds up to somewhere around 13ft!So, we attach the rope and climb down. When we reach the end of the rope, the elf climbs me down so he's holding my legs, his legs dangling in the water. The dwarf makes an amazingly good jump roll and a climb roll, and manages to catch the elf's legs. We survived from that, but I'm thinking of how much we actually had to bend the rules to accomplish it.</blockquote>

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